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After an extensive audit and investigation of alleged improprieties at the USDA’s National Organic Program, the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) made public their formal report, dated March 9, substantiating the allegations of prominent organic industry watchdog groups — that under the Bush administration, the USDA did an inadequate job of enforcing federal organic law.

College Summit is honored to announce it has been awarded $125,000 of President Obama's $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award, which will support students in communities across the country on their path to higher education.

At the first Annual Leaders Forum of the Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown and Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) that build upon the original PCC Agreement, signed on June 30, 2008.

President Obama has unveiled a bold plan with multiple steps that will create jobs quickly and provide immediate incentives for businesses to invest, hire and expand. I am supporting the President wholeheartedly as he moves ahead with today's jobs acceleration initiative.

Democratic National Committee's Veterans and Military Families Council Lauds Administration's Implementation of Post-9/11 GI Bill and Commitment to a New Generation of Veterans

The Obama Administration today began naming individuals who will serve as State Executive Director for the Farm Service Agency at the USDA.

Verizon's cybersecurity teams are known around the world as the authority on investigative response, computer-security product testing and evaluation, and analysis of data collected on new vulnerabilities and threats.

President Obama will ride the wave of sentiment at the Summit of the Americas to move forward US relations with Cuba, predicted John McAuliff, executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development.

Barack Obama may already be losing credibility over his explanation as to why he dropped the windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry from his administration's agenda.

AARP CEO Bill Novelli today released the following statement in reaction to the latest Congressional efforts to help failing industries.

The presidential candidates weren't the only ones prepping for the foreign relations debate in Oxford at the University of Mississippi.

Time Warner Inc. today announced that it will present Politics 2008 - The Media Summit on the Election of the President - a special event co-hosted by CNN and TIME on October 13 and 14, 2008 at the Time Warner Center in New York City.

Barack Obama, under attack from President Bush and John McCain for pledges to meet with Iran's leadership, has started to qualify his prior bold stance, setting new preconditions and qualifications.

Economy Emerges as New Dominant Issue; Young People see Changing U.S. Role in the World

Today, President Bush vetoed an intelligence bill because he opposed a provision in it that would ban the use of torture.

Overall, the federal government continues to spend more than it expects on technology and at faster growth rates than originally budgeted.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement following President Bush's State of the Union Address.

The following is a transcript of the State of the Union address by President Bush.

Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) today announced that it has signed an advisory agreement with Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain.

I strongly condemn the terrorist bombing in Beirut that killed Lebanese Internal Security Forces Captain Wissam Eid and many other Lebanese.